With all of the changes and the number up and down the overall dollar change week over week is a decline of -$103. But, even with the level of changes today, there is still a pretty solid and active market within the wholesale channels.

From last week’s largest declines in the previous five weeks on the cars and for eight weeks on the trucks, the level of adjustment moved to a smaller decline in the most recent week-over-week comparison for both the cars and trucks.

When looking at the car segment changes the highest percentage changes come from the opposite extremes of fuel-economy levels. The trucks average segment change decline has increased for the third consecutive week but not at the same level as the cars.

Most prominently mentioned at recent auctions, according to Black Book, was how the Memorial Day holiday affected the wholesale market. At least word on the street was that retail activity was much better, which could lead to a more active wholesale market this coming week to fill many of those empty holes.

This past week, there was a continuing climb in gasoline prices, now totaling an increase of $0.08 per gallon over the past two weeks and narrowing the difference to only $0.11 under the price one year ago.

The first thing that really stood out over the past week of auctions was the increase in the number of 2013 models that received their initial market driven wholesale values. Black Book editors added 26 different 2013 models with market-based values.